Bright Particular Stars
Subtitle: Canadian Performers
Publisher: Mosaic Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 519
ISBN-13: 9781771612166
Subjects: Entertainers; Canada, biography; Celebrities
Description: "For over fifty years, Martin Hunter's passion for theatre and the performing arts has influenced generations of Canadian talent. Bright Particular Stars offers his comprehensive and fully illustrated history of over thirty of the greatest Canadian performers from stage and screen. From music, there are wide-ranging and insightful chapters on Leonard Cohen, Buffy Saint-Marie and Joni Mitchell. From the theatre stage, sections include Colm Fiore, Christopher Plummer and William Hutt. From film and television come astute chapters on Sarah Polly, Robert LePage and many more. Lavishly illustrated with over 250 images, Bright Particular Stars is a definitive overview of the best Canadian stage and screen performers from the last fifty years."--